"Shine" by Kim Sung Kyu (updated repost), Wednesday, September 25, 2024
In high school, Kim Sung-kyu , the future leader of the boy band Infinite , had to hide his vocal practice from his parents. In high school, he sang with some of his friends in a rock band. When he graduated he left his hometown of Jeonju in hopes of having a career in music in Seoul. After failing an audition for SM Entertainment , he tried out for the label Woolim Entertainment . He hoped to be a rock singer like his future label mate, Nell . On the day of his audition, though, he was suffering from appendicitis. Determined to make it as a singer, he sang through the pain and went to the hospital after the audition finished. Rather than cultivating Kim's rock talents, the record label placed him as the leader of their first boy band, Infinite. Throughout the group's tenure, they would flirt with rock music; however, it wasn't until Sung-Kyu's debut EP, Another Me , that he would be able to make the kind of music he envisioned. WHENEVER THIS TIME OF YEAR COMES,